RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. Over the years, hundreds of people left the U.S. to go fight with ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Only 14 of them came back. Two of them are women with extraordinary and similar stories. Both say their husbands forced them to...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: The police department in Oakland, Calif., has been under federal oversight now for more than 15 years, stemming from a police abuse and racial profiling scandal. In that negotiated settlement, the city agreed to sweeping reforms,...
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. Today in a federal court in Texas, the debate over the Trump administration's immigration policies shifts from separated families to recipients of DACA. Remember, that's the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals progr...
NOEL KING, HOST: Climate change is causing more rain in many parts of the U.S., and more rain means more flooding. And that is bad news for one Great Lakes region crop - wild rice. NPR's Rebecca Hersher has the story. REBECCA HERSHER, BYLINE: Norther...
NOEL KING, HOST: Amsterdam is famous for its nightlife, which appeals to adult visitors. But Amsterdam has now become the latest European city, after Barcelona, Dubrovnik and Venice, to crack down on mass tourism. Amsterdam has fewer than a million r...
NOEL KING, HOST: Could the president hire and fire civil servants at will? That question is at the heart of a concept that's likely to come up often at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings this fall. NPR's legal affairs corre...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, these big wildfires keep raging in Oregon and here in California. In southern Oregon, where temperatures are forecast to break 100 every day through Thursday, the Taylor Creek Fire is the largest of several blazes. And...
NOEL KING, HOST: Germany has this reputation as a pioneer of clean energy. Angela Merkel was called the climate chancellor when she decided to ditch nuclear power. But the reality in Germany is a lot dirtier. The country is the biggest miner of brown...
NOEL KING, HOST: Ten years after the housing market collapsed, a different crisis has emerged. Back then, a decade ago, lots of people were losing their homes. Today people who want to buy or in a lot of cases even just rent are being priced out of t...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: So if you've ever been on a diet but you didn't lose the weight you would hope to lose, your gut bacteria might be part of the problem. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on how the microbes in our guts may either help or hinder weight...
NOEL KING, HOST: The first medication derived from marijuana could be in pharmacies as early as this fall. The FDA recently approved it to treat two rare types of epilepsy. KQED's Lesley McClurg has the story of one family's quest to get this drug. L...
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Kansas voters are going to choose their nominees for governor tomorrow. And on the Republican ballot is Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Now, he became nationally known for imposing a strict voter registration law that was l...
NOEL KING, HOST: Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani fled Iran fearing for his safety. He wrote for a pro-Kurdish magazine that was raided by the Iranian military. So he went to Indonesia, and from there, he got on a boat to Australia. He wan...
DON GONYEA, HOST: The National Rifle Association says it's facing financial trouble and that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is to blame. In a lawsuit, the NRA claims Governor Cuomo discouraged insurance companies and other financial institutions from...
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: There is a growing rift in the Republican Party between money and power. This past week, President Donald Trump attacked the billionaire Republican donors Charles and David Koch, calling them a total joke - that even rhymes...
